Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity to the kingdom by exploiting its oil and rubber resources as well as diamonds, birds' nests (for Chinese gourmets) and gutta-percha (for golf balls). In 1941, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Brooke raj, Sir Charles gave his people a constitution and set them on the road...
Recently, Harvard Medical School has led a modest drive to increase the number of medical graduates by helping to establish two-year medical programs at Brown and Dartmouth, which send students to Harvard or some other school for the final two years of clinical training. But the cost of starting a complete new med school of only 75-100 students per class exceeds $10 million. At this price only major government action can establish the schools that are needed...
...White House reception, his hands enormous in white gloves that as often as not burst under some diplomat's hand clasp. And yet Lincoln always had a sense of being different and apart. John Hay, his longtime presidential secretary, wrote that it was "absurd to call him a modest...
...America are fully persuaded that a bishop lives in a rich castle and exercises autocratic rule over the hapless serfs who are mere members of the church." It would be most disastrous for the cause of disunity "if it were widely known that bishops in some churches have modest incomes, are limited by constitutional checks, and really devote themselves to their pastoral duties. Nor should people be allowed to perceive that in some non-episcopal denominations the administrative strength of executive officers exceeds by far the power of bishops in other churches...
...large, to the countries in Europe and North America. "A genuine world community," he stated, "is demonstrably beyond our capacity in the world as it is and as it is likely to be for the foreseeable future." Therefore, he argued, "we must focus our efforts on the more modest goal of building new bonds among those peoples of the free world who have some feeling of shared values and interest, some feeling of the ability to communicate effectively, some feeling of trust and confidence in each other's purposes...